Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Sousa
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Women's Status ◽  
Central Mexico ◽  
Women’S Status ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Many ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Women’S History

The concluding chapter reiterates the book’s major arguments and places the study’s contributions within the context of the existing scholarship on Mesoamerican ethnohistory and women’s history. The chapter considers the evidence for both major changes and continuities in indigenous social and gender relations in rural communities of central Mexico and Oaxaca between 1520 to 1750. The chapter argues that many factors over time contributed to the erosion of native women’s status. Nevertheless, women responded to the many challenges that they faced to defend their interests, as well as those of their households and communities.

Transformation of women’s status and gender relations in Poland

2020 ◽  
pp. 55-67
Author(s):  
Honorata Jakubowska ◽  
Dominik Antonowicz ◽  
Radosław Kossakowski
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Women's Status ◽  
Women’S Status ◽  
And Gender

scholarly journals Historia, mujeres y género: de una historia sin género a una historia de género

2019 ◽  
pp. 27-50
Author(s):  
Uxía  Otero-González
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
El Paso ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Gender History ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Women’S History

Resumen Este artículo tiene por objeto el reflexionar sobre de la historiografía de las mujeres y el género. En primer lugar, se examina de forma sucinta el paso de una historia sin mujeres a una historia de las mujeres. En segundo lugar, se presta atención al “género” como categoría de análisis histórico y al desplazamiento hacia una historia de esta noción. A continuación, se considera la andadura hacia la institucionalización y el reconocimiento de estos estudios. Por último, se presentan algunos problemas y algunos retos actuales que caracterizan a este campo de investigación. Palabras claves Historia, mujeres, (relaciones de) género    Abstract  This article aims to reflect on women and gender historiography. First, we succinctly examine the transition from a history without women to a women’s history. Second, we pay attention to “gender” as a category of historical analysis and to the displacement to a gender history. Third, we consider the path towards institutionalization and recognition of these studies. And finally, we present some current problems and challenges characteristic of this field of research.  Key words  History, women, gender (relations)  

Does Gender Matter?

2008 ◽  
pp. 54-71
Author(s):  
Paula E. Hyman
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Jewish History ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Family ◽  
European Jewish ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Women’S History

This chapter probes the significant contributions to the understanding of the past, which postmodern criticism that has attributed vital importance to women as a historical subject and to gender as a category of critical analysis. It offers a valuable assessment both of inroads already made by women's history and gender analysis into Jewish historical research. It also invokes distinctions drawn by Gerda Lerner, 'the doyenne of women's history', to categorize both achievements and desiderata in the field of feminism. The chapter reviews compensatory history which focuses on women previously ignored, including gender-based adjustment and refinement of interpretation in areas ranging from the Conversos to the shtetl and from the Holocaust to the family. It tackles areas where women's and gender-sensitive history have the power to transform and reshape the fundamental assumptions of European Jewish history.

Gender, Women’s History, and Social History

1989 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 439-462 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise A. Tilly
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Social History ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Analytical Problem ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Olympe De Gouges ◽  
Women’S History ◽  
The Revolution

Recently, I attended a seminar at which a historian of women presented a dazzling interpretation of the polemical writing of Olympe de Gouges and its (not to mention her) reception during the French Revolution. A crusty old historian of the Revolution rose during the question period and inquired, in his own eastern twang, “Now that I know that women were participants in the Revolution, what difference does it make!” This encounter suggested to me what I will argue are two increasingly urgent tasks for women’s history: producing analytical problem-solving studies as well as descriptive and interpretive ones, and connecting their findings to general questions already on the historical agenda. This is not a call for integrating women’s history into other history, since that process may mean simply adding material on women and gender without analyzing its implications, but for writing analytical women’s history and connecting its problems to those of other histories. Only through such an endeavor is women’s history likely to change the agenda of history as a whole.

A Life Recovered: Mary Hamilton 1756-1816

2014 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Crawley
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Research Tool ◽  
Intellectual Elite ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Many ◽  
Significant Figures ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Women’S History

Through her own words, Mary Hamilton demonstrates the rich resources available for the study of an elite womans life during the latter part of the eighteenth-century and allows us to resurrect more fully the life of a member of an elite circle of women during this period. Her diaries reveal the many opportunities that she had to meet with a number of the significant figures of her day, and shed light on how her academic efforts were perceived by those around her. This article shows how her writings offer researchers an insight into eighteenth-century society as viewed and lived by a woman who was close not only to the centre of high society but also to the intellectual elite of the day. It considers how valuable a resource the diaries and papers are as a potential research tool not only for the study of women‘s history but as a rich resource for the period.

Women’s Status and Fertility Differential in the World-System: A Cross-National Analysis

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 246-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rifat Akhter
Keyword(s):  
World System ◽  
Women's Status ◽  
Power Relationship ◽  
High Fertility ◽  
Dependent Development ◽  
Women’S Status ◽  
System A ◽  
And Gender ◽  
National Analysis ◽  
Cross National

Abstract Using World-System and Gender and Development theories to examine women’s status and fertility in the high fertility countries, I argue that fertility behavior is strongly related to an unequal power relationship between husbands and wives, which occurs because of a dependent economy. Dependent economy creates economic inequality and limits prospects for women’s upward mobility, which may be an important factor for maintaining high fertility. This research examines empirical data from 82 countries—where total fertility rate is higher than 2.1 per woman in a given nation. The study includes both semi-periphery and periphery regions with planned and market-oriented economies in order to investigate the influence of investment and dependent development on women’s status and fertility.

scholarly journals Transitions and Conflicts: Reexamining Impacts of Migration on Young Women’s Status and Gender Practice in Rural Shanxi

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 58-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lichao Yang ◽  
Xiaodong Ren
Keyword(s):  
Northern China ◽  
Women's Status ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Shanxi Province ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Women’S Status ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
And Gender

<p>This article explores impacts of migration on young women’s status and gender practice in rural northern China. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a village in Shanxi Province, it suggests that rural-urban migration has served partially to reconstruct the traditional gender-based roles and norms in migration families. This reconstructive force arises mainly from the changes of the patrilocal residence pattern and rural women’s acquisition of subjectivity during the course of migration. However, after migrant women return to their home villages, they usually reassume their roles as care providers and homemakers, which is vividly expressed by a phrase referring to one’s wife as ‘the person inside my home’ (<em>wo jiali de</em>). Meanwhile, although migrant women’s capacity and confidence have greatly increased consequent upon working out of the countryside, their participation in village governance and in the public sphere has been decreasing. Further examination suggests that the reinforcement of gender inequality and the transformation of gender relations result from the continuous interplay of local power relations, market dominance, and unchallenged patrilocal institutions. Through adopting a life course perspective, it challenges too strict a differentiation between migrant and left behind women in existing literature.</p>

‘For pagans laugh to hear women teach’: Gender Stereotypes in the Didascalia Apostolorum

1998 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 23-35
Author(s):  
Charlotte Methuen
Keyword(s):  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Gender History ◽  
Important Distinction ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Femininity And Masculinity ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Women’S History

The broader theme of gender and Christian religion presupposes three definitions: of Christianity, of religion, and of gender. Probably none of these is as simple as it might first appear, but that of gender is perhaps the most critical for our theme. Although there are still some who would use the terms ‘gender’ and ‘sex’ interchangeably, there is a growing tendency to recognize an important distinction between gender – that is, femininity and masculinity, regarded as largely socially constructed – and sex, the biological distinction between male and female human beings. Gender is best considered as born out of interactions between men and women. This means that the gender roles which make up what we experience as masculinity and femininity cannot be defined by looking only at men or at women, although ideas about both can be gained from looking at one group or the other. That is why gender history is different from women’s history, and that is why both women’s history and gender history are essential enterprises. We need women’s history because we need to know where women were as well as where they were not.

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